Past Events

Fall 2019

Good Systems: Designing Values-Driven AI Technologies Is Our Grand Challenge

Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann (University of Texas at Austin), September 24, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, CMA 5.136

Ethical Leadership in Newsrooms in the #MeToo Era

Dr. Kathleen McElroy, Meme Drumwright, Kate West, and Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin), October 29, 2019, 2PM-3PM, BMC 5.208

Debating Civil Rights: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Battle for the American Soul

Dr. Nicholas Buccola (Linfield College), November 21, 3:30PM-5PM, BMC 5.208

Spring 2019

Media Freedom and the Middle East: Pursuing a Self-Regulatory Approach in Qatar

Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders (University of Texas at Austin), February 19, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, BMC 5.208

Cloak of Invisibility: Perceived Privacy and the Ethical Study of Digital Fan Culture

Dr. Suzanne Scott (University of Texas at Austin), March 26, 2019, 3:30-4:30PM, CMA 5.136

The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard

Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University), April 9, 2019, 3:30-5:00PM, BMC 5.208

Weather Media in the Public Sphere

Dr. John Durham Peters (Yale University), May 2, 2019, 1:30-3:00PM, BMC 5.208

Fall 2018

Feeling Rules, Media Ethics, and the Moral Foundation Dictionary

Dr. Sven Joeckel (University of Erfurt, Germany) & Dr. Leyla Dogruel (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany), September 19, 2018

BYOD! Should We Really Ask New College Grads and Employees to Bring their Own Devices to Work?

Dr. Keri K. Stephens (University of Texas at Austin), September 25, 2018 [Video]

Is Incivility Ever Ethical?

Dr. Gina Masullo Chen (University of Texas at Austin), October 16, 2018 [Video]

Ethics in Public Relations

Kathleen Lucente (Red Fan Communications), October 30, 2018 [Video]

Journalism Ethics amid Irrational Publics: Disrupt and Redesign

Dr. Stephen J. A. Ward (University of British Columbia), November 5, 2018 [Video]

Spring 2018

The Preference for Idealized Imagery in the Media and Detrimental Self-Perceptions Among Women – When does it Begin?

Dr. Kate Pounders, University of Texas at Austin, February 6, 2018 [Video]

Engaging Newsrooms in the Digital Age

Dr. Talia Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, February 22, 2018 [Video]

The Real Ethics of Fake News

Dr. Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, February 27, 2018 [Video]

Hacking Big Data: Discovering Vulnerabilities in a Sociotechnical Society

Dr. danah boyd, Microsoft Research / Data & Society, March 6, 2018 [Video]

How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse

Dr. David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, April 3, 2018 [Video]

The Ethics of Virtual Reality

Dr. Donald Heider, Loyola University Chicago, April 10, 2018 [Video]

Media Criticism in Turbulent Times: A Panel Discussion

Dr. Rod Hart, Dr. Trish Roberts-Miller, Dr. Barry Brummett, Dr. Michael Butterworth, Dr. Scott Stroud, April 25 (Wednesday), 3:30-4:30PM, BMC 5.208 [Video]

Fall 2017

Can We Shop Our Way to a Better Planet? The Promises and Pitfalls of Green Consumption

Dr. Lucy Atkinson, University of Texas at Austin, September 21, 2017 [Video]

Anthems and Activism: Mediating the Politics of the NFL

Dr. Michael L. Butterworth, University of Texas at Austin, October 11, 2017 [Video]

Media Psychology’s Explanation for Why You love Stories: A Morally Ambiguous Resolution

Dr. Robert Lewis, University of Texas at Austin, October 19, 2017 [Video]

Are New Media Technologies Good for Education and Democracy?

Dr. Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University, October 26, 2017 [Video]

The Dark Side of Social Media: A Panel Discussion

Dr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Allye Doorey, Dr. Gary Wilcox, Dr. Scott R. Stroud, Jonathan Henson, University of Texas at Austin, November 6, 2017 [Video]

Ethics and the Appeal to Scientific Consensus in the Climate Change Debates

Dr. Jean Goodwin, North Carolina State University, November 14, 2017 [Video]